The ESPN FC crew discuss the MLS games they're most looking forward to on Saturday.

Toronto goes home

How happy are Toronto FC's players to be back home, where they will face Houston on Sunday (5 ET, ESPN and WatchESPN), after starting the season with seven straight games on the road? Very.

"It's been a long stretch," TFC captain Michael Bradley told ESPN FC Wednesday after the Reds played their eighth consecutive away match, this one a 1-0 Canadian Championship semifinal first leg loss in Montreal. "You forget what it's like to play at home."

This week's episode of MLS Insider features Shaun Maloney and his journey from winning the FA Cup with Wigan to revitalizing the Chicago Fire

Accam has been a surprising early-season star for Chicago despite scoring just one goal.

In the early weeks of the 2015 MLS regular season, little was going right for the Chicago Fire. Three consecutive losses had Frank Yallop's side firmly fixed to the bottom of the Eastern Conference table. The defense looked a shambles, the team's attacking prowess sporadic at best. Yet the return to health of the Fire's silent assassin David Accam has since helped turn around Chicago's season.

Since entering the starting lineup two games ago, Accam has helped the Fire extend its current winning...

ESPN FC's Alejandro Moreno brings us the best moments from Week 7 in Major League Soccer.

As the 2015 MLS regular season unfolds, there's no letup to the challenges facing LA Galaxy forward Gyasi Zardes. But perhaps the biggest one of all is down to simple familiarity.

Zardes is coming off a stellar 16-goal season in 2014, and he scored the club's opener in the 2-1 MLS Cup final triumph over the New England Revolution. As the 23-year-old and his teammates prepare for Sunday's tilt against the New York Red Bulls, he knows full well that he is now a known quantity.

It's not often we stray into the wild and untamed confines of the United Soccer League (i.e., the third tier of the North American football pile) here on The Toe Poke, but we would be remiss not to share the following goal with you.

What you're about to witness is a 60-yard missile to rival the one scored by Charlie Adam from well inside his own half against Chelsea a week or two back.

This is normally the time on the calendar when thoughts turn to the best way to celebrate the opening weekend of the MLS season. For fans lucky enough to hold tickets to an opening week home match as well as those who watch the league from the comfort of home, the long-awaited return of games is an opportunity to get excited about the teams and storylines that will carry their interest from March until November.